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Book Review: The Starfish and the Spider & Open source software organizations and money

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The Starfish and the Spider compares two types of organizational structures. Spider organizations have a central command structure, like a CEO. If you detach one of the spider’s legs from the head, the leg can no longer function. It is not autonomous. Starfish organizations have very distributed command structures. Cut off a leg and it […]

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Does open source exclude high context cultures?

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Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online High context cultures value personal relationships over process. You have to know someone before you can trust them and work with them. They also tend to be less explicit and rely more on tone of voice, gestures and even status to communicate. Typically Asian countries are more high context than Western countries. Think Korea and

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Forking an open source project: regaining internal motivation

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How do I raise enough money to work on my project full time?

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Buy Soma Overnight “How do I raise enough money to be able to spend all my time working on my favorite free software project?” is a question I hear often. I have a few ideas and I’m very interested in hearing others as I think the world would be a better place if we all could afford to

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